horrifyingly

1. 1.

   in a horrifying manner

   “he laughed horrifyingly”

Questions about horrifyingly

What does horrifyingly mean?

horrifyingly means "in a horrifying manner".

How many syllables are in horrifyingly?

horrifyingly has 4 syllables and divides as hor-ri-fyin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is horrifyingly a common word?

horrifyingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.